"Some games you get 10 great shots and no goals. Some nights
everything you throw at them goes in," Shaw said.

The Mallards didn't stop at 10 goals. Missouri would not let the
Mallards stop.

The River Otters were helpless against what appeared to be a much
fresher Mallards team even though both teams were playing their third
game in three nights.

"We're missing a lot of key guys right now," River Otters
assistant coach Scott Bell, a former Mallards defenseman, said.
"We're not the same when we don't have players like Lonnie Loach
(injured), Jeremiah McCarthy (in the AHL for the rest of the season),
Marty Standish (in the IHL) and Allan Roulette (injured)."

Missing players may have been a factor, but the game followed a season
trend. The Mallards have either feasted or starved offensively against
the River Otters this season. The three highest scoring nights Missouri
has allowed this season have come at the hands of the Mallards.

Missouri goaltender Brian Regan owns two shutouts against the Mallards
this season, but the Mallards have also roughed him up in other games.
On Sunday Regan kept only four of the first nine Mallards shots out of
the net.

Regan was gone after Hultgren scored his fourth goal of the season on a
shot that usually would have been a routine save for Regan.

Regan, who entered the weekend with an outstanding 1.93 goals against
average and didn't give up a goal in his UHL All-Star appearance, was
roughed up for 11 goals combined by the Mallards on Saturday and in his
brief Sunday appearance.

Chris Bernard took over for Regan. Only 48 seconds after he took his
place in the dunk tank … ah, the goal crease … the Mallards scored
their sixth goal of the game.

Seven seconds into that power play Kerr scored his first goal of the
game.

Nadeau had completed his hat trick, scoring his 23rd goal of the season,
on assists from (who else?) Proulx and Kerr with 3:03 gone in the third
period to make the score 11-3.

Proulx then scored No. 12 on another assist for Kerr.

After the Mallards got their 12th goal, fans in the crowd of 8,555
indicated that they know their record book as well as they know the
wives, girlfriends, parents, dogs, favorite Back Street Boy and gum of
all Mallards players.

There was chanting of "one more goal, one more goal," to break
the single-game Mallards record.

As hard as the Mallards tried not to score again, Bernard couldn't stop
Mark McFarlane's long shot with 2:45 remaining. The goal broke the old
Mallards mark of 12 goals on two occasions.

Kerr couldn't remember a similar scoring night in his long career.

"I don't think I've ever had eight points in a game. Or it may have
just been so long ago that I've forgotten," Kerr joked.

Nadeau scored a hat trick and five points and wasn't even the
"first star" of the game. In order, it was the two record
breakers, Proulx and Kerr, then Nadeau.

The victory by the Mallards gives them a 3-2-1 mark against their United
Sports Ventures sister organization and improved their season mark to
32-9-4.